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Andy Samberg has claimed that Amy Adams declined to perform a “very dirty” song on Saturday Night Live to be able to protect young fans of the film Enchanted.
Samberg, 46, spoke in regards to the song through the Monday, November 4, episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast,” detailing how he recalled Adams, 50, rejecting the Lonely Island pitch when she was preparing to host SNL in 2008.
“I’m not gonna go into great detail about it, however it was a song that might have been a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” Samberg said on the podcast.
Adams portrayed princess-to-be Giselle in 2007’s Enchanted, a live-action and animated film that poked fun on the fairytale features of classic Disney stories, sending its leading lady to a spot where happily-ever-afters were hard to come back by — Recent York City.
Samberg continued, “It was principally like we were each really old and we were having a picnic, old people couple, and certainly one of us gets stung by a scorpion. After which I’m dying or something and the one lament on my deathbed is that we didn’t explore things more sexually in our life, and it’s this huge up anthem about that.”
The actor added that while Adams told him she thought the song was funny, “She was like … ‘I can’t do this. Little girls are so obsessive about Enchanted straight away. They are going to find this, and it should be scarring for them, and I just can’t mix that straight away’.”
Patrick Dempsey and Amy Adams on the set of ‘Enchanted’ in 2006 Jason Kempin/FilmMagic
The podcast also delved into how Adams and Samberg worked on a Lonely Island track titled “Hero’s Song” as a substitute of pursuing the risque track, which involved Samberg portraying a Batman-type superhero who gets beaten up for attempting to stop any person from robbing Adams.
“Inside five minutes, a mother and her little girl walked up and the look on the little girl’s face upon seeing Amy Adams, I used to be like, ‘Oh, she was so right,’” Samberg said on the podcast. “And it was very instructive for me. It’s not something I even ever considered in our line of labor, you recognize what I mean?”
Samberg continued, “Like, she actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and he or she took it really seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”
Adams portrayed the character of Giselle for a second time in Enchanted’s 2022 sequel, Disenchanted. The film reunited her with original costars including Patrick Dempsey, Idina Menzel and James Marsden.
Adams’ more moderen cinematic work has allowed her to enterprise beyond fairytale explorations, with the actress recently revealing she grew out her own chin hair for her role within the upcoming film Nightbitch. Starring as Mother within the film, set to be released in cinemas on December 6, Adams told Variety in a profile published on October 22, “The hair on the face — that was mine. I saw it as an exquisite expression of the human experience with none artifice or filters. Or tweezers!”
